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The AIR TV series offers a twist. The flashbacks from the show itself occur during Misuzu's (in)famous last walk towards her mother, to emphasize her "goal"-speech. After she dies there is a montage of past events that did not actually happen, such as Haruko buying the baby chick that Misuzu wanted so badly or walking with her along the beach, things that Haruko wished she would have done while Misuzu was still alive. Cue "Aozora" playing in the background.

Aldnoah.Zero has one for Princess Asseylum after being shot dead. It's actually Inaho remembering all the most memorable times he has seen Asseylum. Subverte as the season finale's ending narration states the United Earth military Never Found the Body. and season 2 confirmed she wasn't dead.

Parodied in an episode of Animal Yokocho — after Iyo accidentally bisects Kenta while attempting the old sawing-a-protesting-friend-in-half magic trick, she sits reflectively looking out the window and watches an entire Really Dead Montage go by before Kenta has a chance to protest and demand to be put back together.

Carnival Phantasm shows a montage of Lancer and Berserker after the latter throws him as a weapon, which he lampshades while he's flying through the air; "WAIT, WAIT WAIT WAIT, WHAT'S THAT SUPPOSED TO MEAN?!"

Then, none other than Lelouch receives one as he lies dying in Nunnally's arms. Of course, he was so magnificent of a bastard, fans have hard time believing that even a Really Dead Montage can make him stay dead. One of the He's Just Hiding! responses is that montages had occurred before, as a form of Mind Rape resulting from physical contact with an immortal character, though the images involved were usually a mix of the memories and thoughts of more than one individual. This and other circumstantial evidence leads to the possible Epileptic Tree that Lelouch might be immortal now too. Oh, and there is also the argument that several Disney Deaths happened to other characters in the last few episodes but, in all fairness, none of those went through montages.

After L dies in Death Note, the series mourns by spending half an episode reviewing everything that's happened so far. (This is right before a Time Skip, so it was also a very convenient time for a recap.) There's another lingering, montage-y death in the finale.

Subverted earlier in Dragon Ball Z. After Chiaotzu's Heroic Sacrifice, flashbacks rushed through a stunned Tien's mind, since at that point in the series, once someone was already brought back to life once, that was it. Then came Porunga.

This happens in the original Dragon Ball after Goku finds Krillin after he was murdered by Tambourine one of King Piccolo's sons.

Archer in Fate/stay night. There's another one for Saber in the finale. They even changed the ending sequences for those two episodes to the montages, complete with ending themes different from the usual.

In the 2003 anime adaptation, little Nina Tucker gets one of these during the end credits after her gruesome death, despite only having been in two episodes.

Even more epitomizing this trope, however, is the death of Maes Hughes a character the viewers were just beginning to really love. It seemed so impossible that he could really be dead that the last five minutes of the episode were spent at his funeral, at his burial, with his mourning friends and family, and the kicker: seeing his ghost waving goodbye at a train station. Just to make it REALLY clear. You can't forget his crying daughter pleading that "He said he has a lot of work to do and if they bury him he can't do it when he wakes up!"

Fushigi Yuugi not only has one of these for Nuriko, it also precedes the death with a montage of him imagining a happy alternative future with Miaka. Then later, there's another for Hotohori. It still doesn't stick, though.

Amusingly, Mitsukake, who died around the same time as Hotohori, did not have such a montage. Of course, the heroine didn't particularly seem upset by his death. Neither did most of the audience.

The ninja robot Volfogg from King of Braves GaoGaiGar gets one after his fight with Penchinon, then comes back two episodes later. The two characters who do actually die get nothing of the sort.

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Jonathan slumps over after being strangled and stabbed multiple times, with Dio taking notice. If that wasn't good enough, the ship the two were on explodes and sinks into the ocean. And if that wasn't good enough, Dio resurfaces a century later with his head attached to Jonathan's body.

Kanon, or at least the 2006 remake, offers a subversion: Ayu gets the montage, but as we learn in the next episode, when she invokes the power of miracles, both she and everybody else that seemed headed for certain death is Not Quite Dead. Yes, even Makoto.

In the original Visual Novel she gets the same after/as part of a damned depressing reveal only for Akiko to casually mention a recent news article one morning not much later saying that a certain girl woke up from her seven year coma.

It should be noted that Makoto being revived is, at best, speculation. Nothing in the series actually indicates that the fox shown in the last scene is her, and it is known that there was at least one other fox living on Monomi hill at the time the series takes place.

Played around with in Macross Frontier, with the episode "Goodbye, Sister." Basically, the entire episode consisted of Hot-Blooded, definitely-set-to-die-hot-bloodedly big-brother type Ozma Lee surviving multiple cliched death lead-ups and situations, including fond memories of his adopted younger sister, reconciling with his ex-girlfriend, various musical interludes by the band Fire Bomber, sneaking off to the suspicious enemy base by himself, leading the battle against the Alien Invasion with risky maneuvers and hot-blooded speeches, attending his younger sister's first concert while heavily injured, and even a Shout-Out to a famous character death in Super Dimension Fortress Macross (pineapple cake, anyone?)...and then ending up in the hospital, recuperating but safe.

It's later played straight with a small twist in Episode 20: Mikhail, the character who commented on how tragic it would've been for Ozma Lee to have died, gets one while protectingUnlucky Childhood Friend Klan Klein while she lies in a tube - complete with happy smiling face, and an acoustic version of 'Diamond Crevasse', a song about farewells and losing loved ones.

Basically, these two characters were created with the intention of using the viewer's knowledge of tropes against them; Ozma is the hotshot big brother-type who tends to die about halfway through this type of story (he very intentionally conjures up the memory of a character who did die in the original SDF Macross) whereas Mikhail is the type of character whose function isn't to die, but to go from a stuck-up jerk to a nice guy thanks to the influence of his True Companions and the love of a good woman. So after leading us by the hand and playing these tropes perfectly straight, the writers flip them at the last moment, with the first surviving and the latter dying tragically just as he was about to shake off his jerkdom.

Episode 17 of Mai-Otome has one for The Mole. And in the episode immediately afterward, one for royal maid Aoi, right before she sacrifices herself before an angry mob. The latter of which is one of the rare cases where she actually turns out to have survived, and it wasn't just the creator having second thoughts.

Naruto has two of these in quick succession with Neji and Chouji when they were nearing the end of Part 1. Somehow they got better. The same goes for Kakashi. Neji did ultimately die in the manga, but MUCH later.

Strangely, Usopp gets one of these montages during the Water 7 arc after getting badly beaten up by the Franky Family, despite not only being alive, but also having been confirmed as such by one of the main characters.

The Going Merry got a montage set to one of the ending themes as the crew watched it burn.

Chapter 574: Ace shields Luffy from Akainu's magma attack and is rewarded with one of these as he dies in his little brother's arms.

Oddly enough, in an episode titled "Pikachu's Goodbye?" Ash tries to leave his Pikachu behind with a community of wild Pikachu, thinking it's what's best for him. The show goes into a montage complete with sad music. Obviously, despite what looks just like a Really Gone Montage, Pikachu refuses to be left behind and they are back together immediately after the montage ends.

This also happens in later seasons, where the female sidekick for the region Ash is visiting is Put on a Bus.

And this is also subverted by Ash's Bulbasaur. Though that Pokemon does not appear in future episodes, he is given a notably depressing montage featuring when Ash captures him. However, the subversion comes when it was revealed that the falling rock didn't crush him as thought, but he burrowed underground.

The sixth season episode where Ash catches his Treecko features a Really Dead Montage...for a tree. This is doubly weird because Ash sees it.

Jessie's Dustox and Ash's Butterfree both had similar "Release" montages showing various things they had done with their respective trainers.

Invoked in Puella Magi Madoka Magica, in the episode following Tomoe Mami's beheading. Some old-fashioned TV monitors in a witch labyrinth replay the dead character's last few scenes to torment Madoka. Subverted; Mami comes back to life in the last episode.

After Suzuri is killed in RideBack, the show's next On the Next segment is turned into a Really Dead Montage instead of containing its usual wacky shenanigans. This only helps to double the Mood Whiplash caused by the calm ending tune which is sandwiched between the two events.

Makoto of School Days gets one interspersed with the scenes of him being stabbed to death by Sekai.

In Shinkon Gattai Godannar!!, resident hot pilot Shizuru Fujimura is shown to be really dead, with Goh crying and mourning for her. And then the first season ends. Jump to the second season, we see her seeing her past achievements... then suddenly come back to life. "Who the hell do you think I am?" or so she says...

Subverted in Stellvia of the Universe, where the Humongous Mecha piloted by Shima Katase (incidentally, the main heroine) gets hit with an Earth-shattering (literally, as if the phenomenon reaches the Earth it will cease to exist) wave and seemingly ceases to exist in the penultimate episode — then we are treated to a standard next episode trailer narrated by the sad best friend of the said heroine — and she in nowhere to be seen. The next, final episode starts with a Really Dead Montage lasting several minutes — and yet, right after the opening modified to also be a Really Dead Montage she turns out to be alive (and her Mech unharmed) within the next fifteen seconds.

Welcome to the N.H.K. has the Put on a Bus version of this when Yamazaki leaves. He's still a pretty major character for the remaining episodes though, he's just not living next to Satou anymore.

Bruno/Antinomy gets one of these in Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's, after Yusei insists that those memories together make them true companions. Fittingly, he's one of the very few characters in the show to actually stay dead.

Comedy

Gilbert Gottfried once did a parody of this while host of USA Network's movie-program Up All Night. Early on in one of the movies, the supernatural villain offs a minor comedy-relief character named "Curly" or somesuch. So, during the next commercial break, Gottfried showed a misty music-saturated collection of clips featuring Curly, ending with the standard "smiling head-shot", before fading tastefully to black. It was hilarious.

Comic Books

The death of Phoenix in the original Dark Phoenix Saga in X-Men, which at the time was supposed to be a real death was immediately followed by an issue giving a montage of the X-Men's entire history. (However, the montage issue was going to have been released even with the original ending where she stays alive.)

The Death of Superman concluded with one of these in the form of an in-universe issue of a Newsweek equivalent.

Done in the Batman storyline A Death in the Family in which Batman has found out that Jason Todd the second Robin has found his mother who it turns out is working for The Joker, he rushes to his aid only to arrive in time to see the ware house he was being held hostage in explode, he then has flashbacks of his first meeting with Jason and all the fun times they had, shortly afterwards he finds Jason's dead body in a pile of debris.

Fan Works

Subverted in Pretty Cure Heavy Metal, when Cures Burton, Stradlin, Roadie, and Hendrix all die in the final fight at the end of the penultimate episode. The next episode starts with a montage of all four of them from previous episodes. Of course, then they come back to life at the end of the episode. All of them.

Done in Shrek the Third with the King. Set to Paul McCartney's "Live and Let Die", the rest of the characters put King Harold's frog body into a shoe box and cast it into the pond.

Film — Live-Action

When Harry Stamper is about to push the button to detonate the nuke in Armageddon, we are shown a short montage of his memories of his daughter.

At the end of Cool Hand Luke, Dragline is reminiscing to the other inmates after Luke is killed by the sheriff and we get a montage of the previous scenes in the movie where he's smirking and laughing.

An odd case in Furious 7, where actor Paul Walker died during production, so at the end of the film — despite Brian having survived — we are treated to a montage of Brian's moments in the series, as his car drives off into the sunset.

In James Cagney's Man of a Thousand Faces, a heavily fictionalized biopic of Lon Chaney's life, the camera pans over the walls of his house showing posters for all his movie roles, for an overall effect like a death montage, before focusing out the window.

The movie version of Pet Sematary gives us a variation. After Gage dies, Creed gives a Big "NO!" as photos of Gage as a baby were shown.

Philadelphia has a particularly heartrending example in the final few minutes. The entire movie focuses on the main character's declining health and eventual death from AIDS, and after the funeral a montage of home movies of him as a kid — accompanied by one of the sweetest songs Neil Young ever wrote — is shown right before the credits roll.

Rocky IV features a montage-to-song when Apollo dies after his fight with Drago.

Teri Bauer's death at the end of season 1 of 24 is accompanied by flashbacks to their happy family life at the beginning of the season.

This was especially notable because due to the show's real-time nature (which was played up more in season 1 than any season since), flashbacks and/or montages are otherwise nonexistent. They rectified this by showing the montage on one half of the screen while the other half continued to show Jack in real-time. It's still the only time the show has escaped Limited Third-Person perspective, though.

The Adam-12 episode "Elegy for a Pig" opens with one of Malloy's friends on the force getting killed in the line of duty, and most of the rest of the episode is Malloy remembering him in training, on the job, and when Officer Porter earned the Medal of Honor. The final scene is at the funeral.

When Doyle dies in the first season, you get the home movie version, with the cast watching a commercial Doyle had filmed for Angel's detective agency before dying. In something of an Ironic Echo, he's talking about what a hero Angel is but, after his own Heroic Sacrifice, the uncertainly in reading his scripted lines for the commercial makes his recorded dialogue extra poignant as they play it back posthumously:

Doyle: When the chips are down and you're at the end of your rope, you need someone that you can count on. And that's what you'll find here, someone who'll go all the way, who'll protect you no matter what. So don't lose hope, come on over to our offices and you'll see that there are still heroes in this world. Is that it? Am I done?

In Season Four of Arrow, when the "who is in the grave" mystery was resolved as Laurel Lance, many fans didn't believe she was really dead, because several unusual or ambiguous choices in the final scenes suggested He's Just Hiding! or Faking the Dead.(And also because the number of dead or "dead" characters coming back had led to Death Is Cheap) The next episode, however, not only featured a funeral, but also flashbacks posthumously featuring the character, as well as heartfelt moments of mourning from the other characters, including ones who had been suspected of colluding on Faking the Dead. This effectively settled the matter... until the The Flash (2014) finale raised the possibility of a Cosmic Retcon, and the actor came back as the Earth-2 version of the character.

There's an episode of Beastmaster consisting mostly of Flashbacks of a certain character after she falls into the water during a battle scene at the start of the ep.

As with the Home and Away example below, daytime soap operas are known to do this even when the characters aren't dead. This happened during John Black's funeral on Days of Our Lives and he had returned by the following year.

Mike Delfino gets this in the final season of Desperate Housewives just before he is shot by a mobster.

In Heroes, arch-villain Sylar gets one in the graphic novel immediately following the Volume 4 season finale, where Mohinder recounts the history of Sylar's evil and the Heroes' 4-Volume long struggle against him. Of course, this being Sylar, He's Just Hiding!. Inside Nathan. And Matt.

Highlander. When Tessa dies, we're treated to enough clips to span the entirety of "Dust in the Wind". When Richie eventually dies as well, the exercise is repeated. Other major (good) Immortals, most notably Darius, tend to get montages to the tune of Who Wants To Live Forever.

Of course this was done in the first film, where we get the montage of Conner's life with Heather to Who Wants To Live Forever.

Also done in Endgame for the death of Conner Macleod.

Frustratingly enough, the Australian soap opera Home and Away ended a season with a long-running female character being stabbed and lying in a pool of her own blood, followed by one of these montages, set to the song "Light Surrounding You", stretching right back to the series beginning (the actress had been with the show for twenty years.) When the first episode of the next season aired, it turned out that the character wasn't even dead!

One appears for Corey in the last episode of LA Ink, shown between him deciding to quit the shop and his final confrontation with Kat. In this case, it's more like a "Really Gone Montage" since no one actually dies, but the effect is the same. Between the nostalgic music and the clips of hugging, "birthday" cake, and the first time he saw Kat's shop, it's pretty clear that he won't be coming back.

Mr. Eko's death on Lost was the only one in the series to get one. Notably, although several other main characters really die throughout the series, this character is the only one we never see again in flashbacks/time travel events/flashforward to the afterlife.

There is a brief one of these in Magnum, P.I. when Mac dies and Magnum flashes back on all the times he bribed him with rich desserts.

The M*A*S*H episode "Abyssinia, Henry", in which Henry Blake is killed when the plane taking him home is shot down, ends with a Really Dead Montage of clips of Henry from the preceding seasons, prefaced with the PA voice announcing "M*A*S*H 4077 bids a fond farewell to Lt. Col. Henry Blake."

Cher's show (not The Carol Burnett Show as popularly believed) warmed a few hearts when McLean Stevenson, who'd played Henry, appeared on the show shortly afterward. The intro was Henry rowing on a raft in the ocean shouting "Hey guys! I'm okay, I'm okay!" Some people even wrote Fan Fic novels explaining how and why Henry's death was faked and how he reconnected with and apologized to the rest of the MASH crew years later.

The final episode of the Filipino show May Bukas Pa ("There Is Still A Tomorrow") spent a half hour showing all the Kid Hero's friends mourning and singing sad songs for him. Then he comes back from the dead for no reason than the Virgin Mary (played by the show's producer!) liked him too much. What the hell was that all about?!

An episode of One Foot in the Grave features Margaret very ill in hospital. As Victor watches, she flatlines, prompting a Really Dead Montage. Except, she's not really dead; the montage is interrupted by a nurse banging on the ECG and explaining "It's always doing that."

Saturday Night Live did a brilliant parody of TV news as it kept "interrupting" the show covering the assassination of Our Gang star Buckwheat (as played by Eddie Murphy), running footage of his being shot in slow motion over and over. Then, mere seconds after he died, they ran one of these montages (to the Our Gang theme tune), first showing photos of the actual kid, then Murphy's leering grin...and finally the slo-mo shooting again.

Averted on Sesame Street. When Will Lee died, having played Mr. Hooper for the show's first 13 years, the show chose to address the issue head-on. Big Bird learns about Mr. Hooper's passing and the other characters help him understand what this means. The producers chose not to do a montage or other flashbacks in this particular episode because they felt it might confuse the children to say he's gone forever, then show him on screen a few minutes later.

However, later in the 1980s, "Really Dead Montages" were used when Big Bird spoke of Mr. Hooper — usually to a newcomer who asked about the picture that hangs next to his nest or about Hooper's Store. Big Bird would explain that his old friend was deceased.

The end of The Stand mini-series showed brief clips of the main "good" characters who died during the course of the story.

Any time someone dies on The Walking Dead (and it happens a lot), its follow-up, The Talking Dead, will typically have such a montage, to close out the episode, and include everyone who died in the episode—those who died and then are rekilled as zombies are, of course, included twice.

When Kensington dies in the War of the Worlds episode "Amongst the Philistines", we are treated to a series of stills of him, mostly from that very episode, as he was a minor character who had a grand total of maybe thirty seconds of screen time in the rest of the series.

WWE also devoted an entire three hour Raw program to Chris Benoit after his then-recent death - perhaps to make it clear that he was really really dead, unlike the Kayfabe death of Vince McMahon several weeks earlier. They would quickly end up regretting this, as the full facts about the tragedy had not yet come in. (It did not air on international broadcasts.)

Long before either of them though back when it was the WWF, the WWE devoted an entire episode of RAW to Owen Hart, who died in a horrific accident on the job. For about the length of the show every wrestler broke Kayfabe and fondly remembered the late Owen and culminated when the WWE's biggest name at the time, Steve Austin, stepped into the ring, said nothing and toasted a beer to the thirty foot picture of Owen that had been raised earlier.

In the game Feng Shui, your character doesn't just drop dead if they fail a death check and are not stabilized in time: "After death, there is a pause in the action for a slow-motion flashback montage featuring the highlights of the character's career as a sad pop ballad unfolds on the soundtrack. (The player should describe this.)"

Video Games

Final Fantasy XI treats you to one of these when you either consider giving up on chocobo raising or when your chocobo is so old as to be automatically put out to pasture. More or less of the Put on a Bus variety.

Final Fantasy VII: Crisis Core does this to Zack. It should be moving, but instead it feels ill-placed and tacked-on amidst the brutal, bloody, emotionally-draining death scene which preceded it - a better goodbye than a montage could ever be.

Isara's death in Valkyria Chronicles featured a gathering of The Squad around a tombstone, with Rosie singing a new song she promised to sing.

Subverted in Metal Gear Solid 4. Raiden manages to hold back a giant Metal Gear RAY from crushing Snake, but his body is crushed to do it. The sound cuts out except for a soft piano score along with Raiden and Rose's narration from Metal Gear Solid 2 about their first date, ending with the lights on Raiden's visor going out. The subversion comes from the fact that Raiden doesn't die; he does lose both ofhis arms, but he comes back.

The arcade version of Double Dragon II didn't have the happy ending featured in the NES version where Marian returns to life. Instead, the ending shows a photograph of Marian with Billy and Jimmy during happier times in which she sheds a single tear that forms the words "The End", which is as close as you can expect for a really dead montage in an arcade game.

Valkyrie Profile uses this over and over. It's how you acquire party members: the Valkyrie herself is there when a warrior soul dies and takes the soul into her squad of einherjar.

In Kingdom Hearts: 358/2 Days, right at the end, when one the main characters (Xion) disappears while everyone forgets her, and everything about her stops existing (which won't be explained because the explanation is a bit long), before another of the main characters (Roxas) forgets her, a brief flashback of her turning to him and smiling is shown (about 3 seconds long). After a bit, one of his memories of her and the other protagonist (Axel) of eating ice cream shows up, the three of them having fun. Then the same scene appears again, while Xion fades away.

In the end of Mass Effect 3, Commander Shepard must choose one of three endings, all of them seeming to end with his/her death. (Two of them do; the last one features a post-credits scene of him/her waking up in the wreckage of the Citadel.) Either way, as Shepard goes forth to sacrifice him/herself, the player is treated to a flashback of three characters: Joker, Admiral Anderson, and Kaidan, Ashley, or Liara, depending on whom Shepard romanced.

The Extended Cut adds more possible flashbacks, including Shepard's love interest from either 2 or 3, and includes a second montage at the end with some of the other characters who died along the way (Thane, Legion, and likely Mordin).

The memorial at the end of Halo 3 includes a montage of photos of people killed in the war, including Miranda Keyes and Sgt. Johnson. And Master Chief's callsign (117) etched onto the side of the memorial. The Chief's not dead, but nobody else knows that.

The last photo in Fallout 3's ending montage is a portrait of James with the Lone Wanderer as a child. In addition, before Broken Steel is installed, a photo is shown of the LW's liquefied remains if they chose to activate the purifier.

MOTHER 3 has a brief but effective one after the death of Hinawa, set (of course) to the "Love Theme" that plays during the game's most emotional moments.

Webcomics

The final page of the first volume of Our Little Adventure is a montage of nice/funny events with a parody song of When She Loved Me by Sarah McLachlan. This was at the final part of Pauline's funeral.

Parodied in Dragon Ball Z Abridged: when a giant bug that Nappa declared his pet dies, it runs to a series of ridiculously bloomy clips of the bug. Problem is the bug was only there for about a minute, so there isn't that much to show.

Team Four Star also does this while releasing "dead" Pokemon in their Nuzlocke playthrough, with Ydrib, the first to die, getting a special one mid-battle.

Marriland, in his Pokemon Nuzlocke and Wedlocke runs, does this with any of his Pokemon that faint before releasing them for good, giving a quick opinion and highlighting some of the real cinches they pulled. For Platinum onwards, fan art depicting the deceased Pokemon are shown.

Invoked twice during Hat Films "Feed The Beast" playthrough both times Smiffy killed one of Trott's pets. The first time when Trott called for the montage, it was played straight; the second time, instead they played a music video for a song about how sad he was and how happy Smiffy was to have killed it (set to "Want You Back (For Good)"). Later defied when Smiffy murders Crystal, one of their NPC prisoners, and Trott angrily shouts that he isn't giving her a montage.

While not completely about death (it also included the last attacks used against many important trainers), there was one at the end of Gamingandstuff's Emerald Parlocke for all pokemon that died and how they died.

Ruthlessly parodied here in the Walking Tacos Gag Dub of Bakshi's Lord of the Rings, after the death of Gandalf (who we quickly find out, was kind of a Jerkass.)

Parodied excellently in Megas XLR. The episode in which the Big Bad is finally destroyed ends with a montage of memorable moments, mostly from the same episode, entirely accompanied by mournful music and heart-shaped frames around every still. It ends with a shot of the hero and Big Bad with their arms around each other's shoulders and "enemies forever" written in swirly Hallmark Card font above their heads. Of course, he got better.

Star Wars Rebels: After "Twin Suns" aired, in which Darth Maul is finallyKilled Off for Real by Obi-Wan Kenobi, the official Star Wars website put one on their front page in order to make it clear to fans that no, he's really not coming back this time.

Terra sort of had one in Teen Titans, with little clips of her time with the Titans throughout the episode in which she died before her actual death. Sort of subverted in that apparently, the Titans will be trying to find a way to make her better, but considering that the series came from a much darker comic and was meant for a younger audience, the creators might have just stuck that in there to lighten the blow. Though it still caused many ten year olds to curl up in a ball and cry for a while.

They did arguably bring her back later on... only to use that to wring more tears from viewers. Poor Beast Boy...

Transformers Prime played with this one. In a multi-part concurrent arc one episode ends with Bulkhead getting thrown into the base by a blast. During his episode he faces multiple Giant Mook insecticons and even a named one(for reference there is only one unnamed insecticon fighting in the other episodes and it nearly wins a fight with two Autobots), and has to deal with a highly poisonous energon weapon. During the episode as he's having trouble, he has flashbacks to all the battles hes been in and all the memories of his friends. The episode ends with him heavily damaged, poisoned and blasted in the back out on the floor. He's injured for several episodes but survives.

In Winx Club, Nabu receives one the episode after his death. It's complete with a sad song and other characters, even Riven, crying over his death.

Real Life

It's common at funerals to have a collage with pictures of the deceased.

Some medical colleges have a slideshow at the end of every year naming and honoring the deceased who donated their bodies to the students at the college.

On a mass scale, the AIDS quilt is one of these.

Since the early 90's, awards shows such as the Emmys, Oscars and Grammys have done a clip reel of contributors to the craft who have died over the past year, complete with slow music. Nowadays they've roped in known singers like Sarah Mclachlan, Queen Latifah and Eddie Vedder to perform nostalgic songs live.

Turner Classic Movies does this with little "TCM Remembers" promos whenever an actor, producer or director dies, and at the end of each year they do a longer video recalling many important film people who died over the year. The production company, Sabotage Film Group, is noted for its beautiful work on these memorials and other TCM promos.

And literally every year, someone vitally important to cinema dies after that film comes out. Sometimes they re-edit, as was the case with Zsa Zsa Gabor and Carrie Fisher in 2016. Sometimes this means cutting someone else out who was originally included; to prevent this, they sometimes put the latecomer into next year's montage instead. This happened with, among others, Luise Rainer in 2015 and Debbie Reynolds in 2017. Also, the last slot of the reel is typically given to the person who TCM feels has had the biggest legacy in classic film, such as Elizabeth Taylor in 2011 and Shirley Temple in 2014. Notably, in 2017, their longtime host Robert Osborne closed the reel (in a year where Jerry Lewis or the aforementioned Debbie Reynolds would have done so).

News reports of famous people who have died have footage of the person while they were alive.

In a crossover with the film category, as actor Paul Walker died during the making of the 7th The Fast and the Furious movie, the film ends with a montage of some of his character moments in the film, all framed with him driving off into the sunset, in a situation not too dissimilar from the Father Ted and Suddenly Susan examples.

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